After the season opener two weeks ago at Silverstone, the FIA GT series was back on track at the shortest and tightest circuit of the season, the 2.7 kms of Adria, for the only two hours of night racing on the calendar.

It was a busy weekend for the Ferrari F430 GT entered in three major international GT series, and claiming multiple podium appearances in the FIA GT Championship, the American Le Mans Series and the Spanish Open GT Championship.

After the season opener two weeks ago at Silverstone, the FIA GT series was back on track at the shortest and tightest circuit of the season, the 2.7 kms of Adria, for the only two hours of night racing on the calendar. At the end of an action packed race, the two F430s entered by the Italian AF Corse squad, made it to the second and third steps of the podium, behind the Porsche 997 of Emmanuel Collard and Richard Westbrook. Gimmi Bruni, in a car shared with Toni Vilander, had the misfortune to make contact with Englishman Tim Mullen at the first corner, but, despite having to make an unplanned pit stop, still managed to finish second, ahead of the sister Ferrari crewed by Alvaro Barba Lopez and Niki Cadei. The next round of the FIA GT Championship takes place at Oschersleben in Germany, over the weekend of 21 June.

The fourth round of the American Le Mans Series, the Utah Grand Prix took place at Salt Lake City’s Miller Motorsports Park. The Risi Competizione Ferrari F430 GT, driven by Jaime Melo and Pierre Kaffer took third place, behind the two Porsche 911s of Joerg Bergmeister-Patrick Long and Wolf Henzler-Marc Lieb. The Houston based Ferrari team thus picked up valuable points going into the next round, scheduled for 19th July at the Lime Rock circuit, in Lakesville, Minnesota.

The second round of the Open Spanish GT Championship took place at the Portimão circuit in the Algarve, Portugal, with the crew of Giacomo Ricci and Michele Rugolo (Advanced Engineering) taking second place in Race 1, behind Gianluca Roda and Richard Lietz in a Porsche 997 and ahead of the sister car of Pedro Couceiro and Manuel Giao. Race 2 saw Ferrari come out on top thanks to Marcel Fassler and Joel Camathias. The crew entered by the Swiss team, Trottet Racing, crossed the line ahead of the Giao-Couceiro Porsche and the F430 of Marco Cioci and Piergiuseppe Pierazzini (Megadrive). The Spanish series is back in action at Belgium’s Spa-Francorchamps circuit, over the weekend of 26 July.